WHO’s legendary guitarist Pete Townshend Acknowledging the band’s most iconic song, “My Generation”, became a “burden”.
“I hate playing it,” Townshend, 79, admitted on Tuesday, March 25 in the “Open Pop” podcast.
“My Generation” defines the age of the 1960s rebellion with its original metallic sound and the declaration of the bubble lyrics of the Thomson, proclaiming: “I wish I had died before I got old.”
Townshend reflected on the influence of “my generation” in a podcast interview, acknowledging that its exaggerated style has hindered who in the long run.
“Well, I think for the band members, for me and the band members, it became a burden,” he said. “We’re still playing the closing song in our 20s. For us, the conversation is over.”
The musician continued: “When we first went to New York in 1967, some kids were called to Vietnam, but the Vietnam issue was over and we were still on stage “my generation” and I might be smashing the guitar and [drummer] Keith Moon is still smashing his drums, and we are still doing it in ’68. ”
John Entwhistle, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend perform in Dick Clark’s Position
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThe list eventually began to change. “After we started the performance [1969 rock opera] Tommywe will be with [‘See Me, Feel Me’]but if there is a desire to act again, we end up playing “Summer Blues” and then following up on “My Generation” and smashing the guitar or whatever we were doing at the time. My explanation of why I did this was not accepted. ”
Townshend admits that his frustration with “My Generation” will only increase over time, especially as fans want to hear the song at every show.
“We don’t want to keep playing at the end of the show,” he admitted. “I have to say, [Roger Daltrey, The Who’s singer] I recently did a few shows about teen cancer at Royal Albert Hall, and we played “My Generation” and I hate playing it. It’s hard to play. It changed a lot, I didn’t have that great, big, huge stage sound that I had when I was young. ”
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When it was released in 1965, “My Generation” caused great controversy, and the BBC initially refused to play it on the radio because Datre’s stuttering vocals were considered offensive to the actual stutterers.
Regardless, the track’s animation message was still very popular, forcing the BBC to revoke its ban and bring “My Generation” back on the charts. It ended up being second in the UK single chart in 1965, although it hit only No. 74 in the United States
Speaking about the song ban on “Open Pop”, Townshend contrasts the controversy with how contemporaries like the Beatles often refuse to address serious topics in their early years.
“When you look at the early interviews with the Beatles, all they do is joke every time they get asked a serious question,” he noted. “I tried to answer the questions seriously, but I knew there were some topics that I had to stay away from. I could have bravely defended myself while stuttering. It’s not about being bothered by the people who stutter. This is what I grew up in this group of boys who took so many Amphetamines in this group, and they didn’t talk, they couldn’t talk.”
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